The truth is that it hasn’t got a great box office since the movie was released in the country too late, January 29 of 2010, and in very little cinemas.

Sadly, we all know that the movie hasn’t got expectations worldwide. The total box-office in the World to date is $8,966,022, and of them just the 30.3% ($2,715,657) was got in its domestic release which was done in a way “limited“.

Many of us were hoping that it had been the great return of Michelle Pfeiffer and even put her on the race for the Academy Awards of this year, but the little gross and cold reviews of the movie did that pfans’ dreams didn’t come true. Our only consolation was see her doing, you know, her stellar appearance as a presenter…

On the other hand, also Turkey is other country where the film can be still seen, with a cinema too.

Anyway our expectations go on!

Come on Michelle! ;-)

Source: BoxOfficeMojo
Thanks Marc for the info.

Since Michelle Pfeiffers 52nd birthday is coming around, NoAngel2901 is sharing with us through YouTuve this amazing video of one of her best movies: Frankie & Johnny alongside Al Pacino; and with music by Cheryl Ladd, “Walking in the Rain”. So from PfeifferTheFace, also it’s one of my favorite movies,  I’d like to offer the video as a started of the great date incoming!

I hope you like it. According to the pfan-maker, “the idea for the clip just popped up when I was watching the DVD for the 10.000 time.!!”

Enjoy! ;-)

According to the page, “with their unlikely physiques and feats of derring-do, superheroes are naturally sexy. But when these comic-book do-gooders get their own movies, they’re often embodied by flavor-of-the-month celebrities delivering flat line readings in hokey costumes — not nearly as sexy”

They show us some stars who managed to make our favorite superheroes as alluring on screen as they were on the page. Among them, our Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman is placed on the 2nd!. Taking the top by Christian Bale as Batman in Batman Bergins.

About her Catwoman, they say:

#2. Michelle Pfeiffer as Catwoman, Batman Returns

Catwoman has always followed her own agenda, and while she may have been an adversary for Batman in this film, her end game was stopping the power-hungry businessman Max Shreck (who, it should be noted, pushed her out a window). You might question her moral compass, but you can’t question the unstoppable sexual force of Pfeiffer in one of the first explicitly bondage-gear-inspired superhero outfits.

Other superhero-actors are:

#3. Hugh Jackman as Wolverine, X-Men; #4. Robert Downey, Jr. as Iron Man, Iron Man; #5. Anna Paquin as Rogue, X-Men; #6. Edward Norton as the Hulk, The Incredible Hulk;#7. Carla Gugino as Silk Spectre, Watchmen; #8. Brandon Lee as Eric Draven, The Crow; #9. Ron Perlman as Hellboy, Hellboy; and #10. Christopher Reeve as Superman, Superman.

Ladyhawke wasn’t launched in Spain until the summer in that year, in that time when I watched to Michelle Pfeiffer the very first time and it meant my great discovery… so Ladyhawke is the movie which I must so much and the reason to be of this site!

I’ve known that it was the discovery of many pfans here too!

Ladyhawke wasn’t a great hit on box-office, even it was one of the flops of that summer, but through the years it has been considerated as a cult movie in the Eighties.

Really it is “a magical, mystical adventure!”

Enjoy this beautiful fan-video, “Adagio“, found on YouTube, with footage of the movie and music by Lara Fabian.
[this video has spoilers at the end]

It is the final draft and it written by Oliver Stone.

Click on the image to visit the Screenplays page

Thanks a lot Irina from St.Petersburg for providing us this wonderful script!

Ed Orkin (Jeff Goldblum) is an ordinary guy with insomnia, has a very boring job and finds out his wife is having an affair. Can his jaded life get any better? Well one night, it does take a sharp turn when he rescues a lovely, but mysterious blonde named Diana (Michelle Pfeiffer) from some ruthlessly zany thugs at the airport. From this point onwards Ed and Diana are caught up in a cheerfully dashing and murderous chase throughout the night in Los Angeles. Where everyone seems to want a piece of those six emeralds, which Diana has smuggled into the country.

Watch the US official trailer here

The film is cool and hip and stuffed with in jokes and visual references for film buffs. It didn’t do great business but has become a cult film on the video circuit. For Pfeiffer it was a landmark.

As a classic in Michelle Pfeiffer’s fashion-style on movies is the red Napa calf jacket she wears throughout most of the film is the third leather jacket created for the screen by designer Deborah Nadoolman. She designed Indiana Jones’s aviator’s jacket for Raiders of the Lost Ark and Michael Jackson’s red and black jacket for his video Michael Jackson’s Thriller and then something a little cuter but cool for dashing Diana.

For the soundtrack. I guess you wil remind the funny music videos made for the movie, ‘In the Midnight Hour’ and ‘Lucille’, performed and played by blues guitarist B.B. King and “his Band”: Jeff Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Dan Aykroyd, Eddie Murphy and Steve Martin during their performance in one of the 80’s night’s clubs.

“Trim, smart and drop-dead gorgeous, Pfeiffer has been nibbling at stardom since her stints in Grease 2 and Scarface. Now, by animating this sparkling thriller satire with her seen it all elegance, she has every right to feast on it…”

It is just a piece wrote by  Richard Corliss of Time magazine about Michelle when Into the Night went into cinemas in February, 1985. Phrase “Drop-dead gorgeous” (means “breathtakingly beautiful”) seems to have been with us since just 1985. The phrase struck a chord and there are many references to it in newspapers and journals from very soon after that.

But the movie didn’t actually get a very good reception by dritics: Vincent Canby in the New York Times wrote: “A little bit of Into The Night is funny, a lot of it is grotesque and all of it has the insidey manner of a movie made not for the rest of us but for moviemakers on the Bel Air circuit who watch each other’s films in their own screening rooms.” He reserved praise, however, for the performances of the two leading actors: “Mr. Goldblum does little except react to the outrages of others, which he manages with a good deal of comic poise. Miss Pfeiffer, last seen as Al Pacino’s cocaine-zonked wife in Scarface, is so beautiful that one is apt not to notice that she has the potential for being a fine comedienne.”

Variety held a similar view, writing that the “film itself tries sometimes too hard for laughs and at other times strains for shock,” while also praising the performance of Jeff Goldblum, “nonetheless enjoyable as he constantly tries to figure out just what he’s doing in all of this.”

Some critics saw the large number of cameo appearances by Landis’s friends and colleagues as unnecessary and distracting. Roger Ebert in the Chicago Sun-Times wrote: “If I had been the agent for one of the stars, like Goldblum, Michelle Pfeiffer, Richard Farnsworth or Kathryn Harrold, I think I would have protested to the front office that Landis was engaging in cinematic auto-eroticism and that my clients were getting lost in the middle of the family reunion.”

Time Out wrote: “The casting of innumerable major film-makers in small roles seems an unnecessary bit of elbow-jogging, but David Bowie makes an excellent contribution as an English hit man, and the two leading players are excellent: Pfeiffer in particular takes the sort of glamorous yet preposterous part that generally defeats even the best actress and somehow contrives to make it credible every inch of the way.”

Source: Wikipedia, Frase Finder and PfeifferTheface

LOVE is one of the main themes along Michelle Pfeiffer’s career. The actress has played parts in romantic movies and its variations such as comedies, dramas and fantasy. Pfeiffer has fallen in love in several movies, here a look around the best LOVE STORIES she has lived on the screen, a right list of romantic movies to see the Valentines’s Day… afternoon… alone or accompanied:

Falling In Love Again (1979)

Tagline: “Remember how you loved each other?”
Genre: Romantic Drama

Also known as In Love, Falling in Love Again marks the big-screen debut of Michelle Pfeiffer. While en route to a class reunion, Harry Lewis (Elliott Gould) recalls the golden days of his youth. These flashbacks are contrasted with his current sorry existence as the unhappy husband of his high-school sweetheart, Sue (Susannah York). This was the directorial debut for 20-year-old Steven Paul (whose brother Stuart plays the younger Gould), and on Pfeiffer, someone had to find resemblance to a young Susannah York, since the actress plays the teenage Yorks’ part in the flashbacks. The movie, considerated as a drama, has little bites of romantic comedy in the flashbacks.

It’s only a slight moment of prophecy, but the first time Pfeiffer appears on screen she has a halo around her head. The best reason to get this is to fall in love again with the girl who would be Catwoman.

Grease 2 (1982)

Tagline: “Grease is still the word!”
Genre: Comedy Musical

The film reverse the social characteristics of the first film’s romantic leads (played by John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John). In the sequel, the boy (Maxwell Caulfield) is the bookish milquetoast, while the girl (Michelle Pfeiffer) is the hip greaser groupie, a Pink Lady.

Return to rockin’ Rydell High for a whole new term! It’s 1961, two years after the original Grease gang graduated, and there’s a new crop of seniors – and new members of the coolest cliques on campus, the Pink Ladies and T-Birds. Michael Carrington (Caulfield) is the new kid in school – but he’s been branded a brainiac. Can he fix up an old motorcycle, don a leather jacket, avoid a rumble with the leader of the T-Birds, and win the heart of Pink Lady Stephanie Zinone (Pfeiffer)? He’s surely going to try!

Despite its critical mauling and failure at the box office, it has developed a cult following. It camp kitsch at its finest and you’d be surprised just how many people out there love this film. Around the net there are thousands of fans in appreciation groups, and even they are a pretty mixed bunch (male – female – somewhere in between) not everyone it going to love this film, but its worth watching with an open mind!

Ladyhawke (1984)

Tagline: “A Magical Mystical Adventure”
Genre: Romantic Fantasy

This is one of the most beautiful movie ever, at least for me. It is a funny, full of action, fantastic and romantic film directed by Richard Donner, starring Matthew Broderick, Rutger Hauer and Michelle Pfeiffer. In medieval Europe a thief called “The Mouse” (Broderick) escapes the dungeons of Aquila, setting in motion a chain of events that may save or destroy a beautiful woman (Pfeiffer) and a brave captain (Hauer). The two lovers are doomed to lifelong separation by a demonic curse invoked by the corrupt and jealous Bishop of Aquilla (John Wood): by day Isabeau is transformed into a hawk, while at night Navarre becomes a black wolf. Imperius (Leo McKern), the monk who drunkenly betrayed their love to the Bishop, has found a way to break the curse, but only if he and the Mouse can get them back into Aquilla to face the Bishop.

I never forgot the feeling it left me with: This is heart-wrenching romance. And besides it was the movie in which I discovered Michelle Pfeiffer when I was 8 in 1985… and of course my favorite one… (I know) I’ve said it over and over again!

Definitely a unique type of love story and a must to see for new generation.

The Russia House (1990)

Tagline: “A Spy Story . . . A Love Story . . . A Story to Cross all Boundaries.”
Genre: Romantic Drama

It’s  an amazing movie. It captures the majesty of Russia in visits to Moscow and St. Petersburg (Leningrad) as well as the crumbling Soviet state. The first western movie filmed in the Soviet Union, The Russia House is better defined as a love story than as a spy thriller.

Sean Connery and Michelle Pfeiffer ignite the screen in this enchanting adaptation of John Le Carre’s romantic suspenseful espionage drama. Connery portrays Barley Blair — a lonely, middle aged, hard-drinking, London publisher — who has a love for all things Russian. While in Russia, Barley captures the attention of a daring Russian scientist (Klaus Maria Brandauer), who attempts to send him a top secret manuscript disclosing the secrets of Russian military defense, which, if published in the West could alter the global balance of power. However, the manuscript falls into the hands of the British C.I.A., and they coerce Blair into traveling to the Soviet Union to find out the identity of the manuscript’s author and the validity behind the secret military codes. Reluctantly, Blair arrives in the cold landscape, hoping to complete his mission and leave as soon as possible. But his contact turns out to be Katya (Pfeiffer), a sensitive and beautiful Russian editor, and Blair soon falls deeply in love with her. Realizing she is an unwitting pawn in a deadly game, he does everything he can to protect her, and his empty life is once again filled with meaning. Set against the vivid backdrop of Russia’s most beautiful cities, this thriller explores the tension filled years during and after Glasnost as Russia struggled to gain power and shed their previous political reputation.

The Russia House is a truly mysterious and romantic movie.

Frankie & Johnny (1991)

Tagline: “You never choose love. Love chooses you.”
Genre: Romantic Comedy-Drama

Michelle Pfeiffer plays Frankie, a Manhattan coffee-shop waitress whose hair hangs down in greasy, indifferent tangles. Al Pacino is Johnny, the boisterous new cook who peeks beneath her depression and sees that she’s the one for him.

We can say that Frankie & Johnny falls squarely in the tradition of inspirational Hollywood romance — the sort of film in which Boy meets Girl, Boy makes a shameless, life-loving spectacle of himself in order to impress Girl, Girl gets jealous when Boy has a fling with someone else, and so forth. Most of the movie isn’t terribly surprising. But yet Frankie & Johnny gives Pfeiffer and Pacino room to create warm, expansive characters, and it has one element that feels absolutely fresh: It captures the dull romantic ache people can carry around with them for years. The movie is mature enough to understand that love, contrary to our starry-eyed fantasies, often demands a spark of will — that at some point you have to leave your cloister behind and say that, yes, this is the person I’m going to take a chance on.

Frankie & Johnny does what any true romantic movie should: It makes the mysterious, push-and-pull alchemy of love seem, once again, worth the effort.

The Age of Innocence (1993)

Tagline: “In a world of tradition. In an age of innocence. They dared to break the rules.”
Genre: Romantic Drama

Directed by Martin Scorsese based on Edith Wharton’s classic 1920 novel about a thwarted love affair, the movie is set among the upper echelons of New York society in the 1870s-an American aristocracy, patterned after the European one of old but marked by a Puritan fervor that is strictly homegrown. The characters in The Age of Innocence almost never say what they’re thinking. Instead, they allude to it-playfully, elliptically, maliciously, in language contrived not to seem the least bit ”unpleasant.”

Society scion Newland Archer (Daniel Day-Lewis) is engaged to May Welland (Winona Ryder), but his well-ordered life is upset when he meets May’s unconventional cousin, the Countess Olenska (Michelle Pfeiffer). At first, Newland becomes a defender of the Countess, whose separation from her abusive husband makes her a social outcast in the restrictive high society of late-19th Century New York, but he finds in her a companion spirit and they fall in love.

The story told here is brutal and bloody, the story of a man’s passion crushed, his heart defeated. Yet it is also much more, and the last scene of the film, which pulls everything together, is almost unbearably poignant…

Up Close & Personal (1995)

Tagline: “Every Day we Have, is One More Than We Deserve.”
Genre: Romantic Drama

”I’m giving you a shot as a reporter. You thought I came by to f— you,” craggily handsome veteran TV newsguy Warren Justice (Robert Redford) challenges dewily pretty neophyte TV newsgal Tally Atwater (Michelle Pfeiffer) early in their relationship in Up Close & Personal. It’s a variation on A Star Is Born. The movie is based loosely on Jessica Savitch story, the newswoman who, in the 1970’s, became the “First Woman Anchor”. Sally/Tally is taken under the wing of Warren in a Miami newsroom and becomes a TV news star. Despite her love for Warren, she takes the big chance and moves on to Philadelphia, where he follows to rescue her faltering career at the cost of his own.

The movie works well viewed as a love story. And it includes the hit song “Because You Loved Me” performed by Celine Dion which received a nomination for the Academy Awards.

One Fine Day (1996)

Tagline: “She was having a perfectly bad day… Then he came along and spoiled it.”
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Michelle Pfeiffer plays Melanie, a single mom and architect with a moppety 5-year-old son and one ear permanently glued to her damn cellular phone; George Clooney is Jack, a secondary-custody divorced dad and newspaper columnist with a precocious 5-year-old daughter and his own damn cell phone. The two adults meet cute (forced to share a cab to get their kids to a school event, they inadvertently swap damn cell phones); by the end of the day, they’re goo-goo over each other.

One Fine Day is a film with a very smart script, funny dialogues, beautiful acting, directing, and it all gels well together. Chemistry between the former Catwoman and the third Batman was undeniable, the two stars are both perfectly charming throughout.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1999)

Tagline: “Love makes fools of us all.”
Genre: Romantic Fantastic Comedy

It is an adaptation of William Shakespeare’s play of the same name. The movie is an enchanted folly suggesting that romance is a matter of chance, since love is blind; at the right moment we are likely to fall in love with the first person our eyes light upon. Much of the play’s fun comes during a long night in the forest, where the mischiefmaker anoints the eyes of sleeping lovers with magic potions that cause them to adore the first person they see upon awakening. This causes all sorts of confusions, not least when Titania (Michelle Pfeiffer), the Fairy Queen herself, falls in love with a weaver who has grown donkey’s ears. The weaver is Bottom (Kevin Kline), and he and the mischievous Puck (Stanley Tucci) are the most important characters in the play, although it also involves dukes, kings, queens and high-born lovers. Bottom has a good heart and bumbles through, and Puck spreads misunderstanding wherever he goes. The young lovers are pawns in a magic show: When they can’t see the one they love, they love the one they see.

Though some critics dumped on this film, it is a playful, sexy piece of work with lots of charm. The movie literally sparkles. The settings are full of rich colors and magical lighting. And the cast is an utter delight.

The Story of Us (1999)

Tagline: “Can a marriage survive 15 years of marriage?.”
Genre: Romantic Comedy-Drama

Psychologists always say that it’s healthy for a couple to fight, but somehow it doesn’t feel that way when you’re fighting. The Story of Us, Rob Reiner’s pungent, funny, and surprisingly forceful movie, follows an embattled Los Angeles couple, Ben and Katie Jordan (Bruce Willis and Michelle Pfeiffer), who have been together for 15 years but have stopped recognizing the goodness they share. When they go at each other — as they do for most of the film — the conflicts have a testy directness that’s snappish enough to wound.

The movie creates something unexpected: a marital romance. It shows the squabbles, the war-weary cocooning, and the potential destruction of this relationship on its own fractious, moment-to-moment terms. The Story of Us evokes a paradox of marriage — namely, that Ben and Katie are drawn to each other for the very complementary qualities that also make them rivals. The movie catches the alternating currents of affection and pride, resentment and passion that bind people together even as they’re being torn apart.

The best: Michelle Pfeiffer’s final speech is a smiling-through-tears rouser.

I Could Never Be Your Woman (2006)

Tagline: “Find Yourself. In Love.”
Genre: Romantic Comedy

Slapstick, cerebral, puns, visual humor, industry in jokes, innuendo, and satire… are at full force. Amy Heckerling’s comedy, I Could Never Be Your Woman, is a film of real sweetness – but even the sentimentality is handled well – but not saccharine. It handles the idea of older woman – younger man with a delicious sense of balance and farce.

The movie makes a convincing case that every love feels like the first. It follows a divorced woman (Michelle Pfeiffer) in her forty’s who meets a guy (Paul Rudd) in his late twenties through work (she’s a producer on a fictitious teen sitcom) while her teenage daughter (Saroirse Ronan) falls in love for the first time. This movie works for a lot of different reasons. The first being the undeniable chemistry between Pfeiffer and Rudd who plays the kind of guy that any girl at any age could fall for. Even more than his charm is his relentless persistence of Pfeiffer’s character, not caring about the age difference at all and trying to convince her she should either.

Definitely this is one of the most underrated romantic comedies ever.

Cheri (2009)

Tagline: “In a game of seduction, never fall in love.”
Genre: Romantic Drama

Although it hasn’t a happy end, I’ve wanted to pick Chéri into the Vanlentine’s Day movies because it shows to us how love and passion can be lived in any age.

At 50, Michelle Pfeiffer has never looked more ravishing then she does as Léa, the fancy-free Paris courtesan of Colette’s 1920 novel and its sequel. The actress is twinkly and creamy-skinned; she makes Léa a glowing, knowing, temperamentally ageless coquette. But the real freshness of her performance is that, in a movie that has Léa involve herself with a much younger man — the louche, gullible Chéri (Rupert Friend), who’s the wealthy son of one of her courtesan colleagues (Kathy Bates) — Pfeiffer transcends any hint of cliché ”cougar” voraciousness.

Chéri marks a reunion between Stephen Frears, Michelle Pfeiffer and the screenwriter Christopher Hampton 21 years after all three collaborated on Dangerous Liaisons.

The movie brings to us how wily and deceptive love can be.

All of them are my choices for a right Valentine’s Day… they are romantic movies with LOVE as main theme. But let’s remember Michelle has fallen in love in many other movies:

So, in Scarface (1983), the actress gets married to the drug-dealer-mobster Al Pacino; in Into the Night (1983) ends in love with Jeff Goldblum; shares the love of Jack Nicholson with Cher and Susan Sarandon in The Witches of Wastwick (1987) and getting him only for herself in Wolf (1994); falls on the cop Matthew Modine’s arms in Married To The Mob (1988); repeats with a cop, Kurt Russell and a drug dealer, Mel Gibson –who finally gets to her– in Tequila Sunrise (1988); lives a tragic romance with John Malkovich in Dangerous Liaisons (1988); reaches boiling point with Jeff Bridges in The Fabulous Bake Boys (1989); lives and interracial romance with Dennis Haysbert in Love Field (1991); becomes a romantic interest for Bruce Wayne and a deadly adversary for Batman playe by Michael Keaton in Batman Returns (1992); is the gost of the Peter Gallagher’s dead wife in To Gilliam on Her 37th Birthday (1996); in What Lies Beneat (2000) is the dedeived spouse of Harrison Ford; and in Personal Effects (2008) comes back to fall in love with a man younger than her, Ashton Kutcher.

Into this movie pack, we can include Stardust (2007) altough she isn’t the main love interest, but Claire Danes and Charlie Cox. Anyway it is a lovely charming fantasy movie to watch on Vanteline’s Day!

Well… if you aren’t in love.., you can always to watch a Michelle Pfeiffer’s movie! ;-)

I know, Tim Burton is one of our favorite directors and besides who got one of the most stunning Michelle Pfeiffer’s performances in her career. Batman Returns‘ Pfeiffer-Catwoman is already a classic among the villains in superhero movies and of course an icon in the history of the cinema.

Now with the upcoming “Alice” generating so much positive buzz, its easy to see the attraction for Disney. It’s been proven that retelling a story from the “villain’s” point of view can work extraordinarily well, so the las month Ain’t It Cool News reported that Burton might be adapting another classic tale soon, but this time from the point of view of the villain. The site says that Burton is interested in making a live action feature based on Maleficent from Disney’s 1959 adaptation of the fairy tale Sleeping Beauty. Burton’s Dark Shadows, a film which had previously been told would shoot this year is “stumbling,” according to AICN, so Maleficent could possibly be his next project, and even the studio registered the domain name www.maleficentmovie.com some time last summer.

AICN offers appealing ideas for the plot, “she was always the most interesting character in that story, but we never knew why she hated those three little fairy wenches… or what indignity she suffered at the hands of Aurora’s parents. Yeah, I’m on board… if only it ends with Maleficent with a sword in her heart in dragon form. Cuz that’ll rule. Think about how long this plot-line was carried out over. She has quite a tale to tell.” Don’t do you think it sounds interesting?

Well, nothing is officially said by the studio neither Burton yet, but blogs and forums are already raving and speculating about the “possible” project and of course about who would be the “perfect” actress to play so interesting role. They are going with someone around her 40’s, 50’s and names on the air are Meryl Streep, Nicole Kidman, Angelina Jolie, Glenn Close (who was Cruela De Vil in ‘101 Dalmatians‘), Susan Sarandon (was Queen Narissa in ‘Enchanted‘), Tilda Swinton (was White Witch in ‘The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe‘)… and of course our Michelle Pfeiffer although she has too recent her Lamia in ‘Stardust‘. Ah! … and Johnny Deep! LOL ;-P.

Looking for stuff about this subject, I found surprisingly this review about Stardust at Suit101 and the comparison of her performance with Sleeping Beauty’s Magnificent:

“Pfeiffer portrays Lamia with a regal disdain reminiscent of the wonderfully wicked Maleficent in Disney’s Sleeping Beauty (1959). Where actresses of any age might squawk at portraying a hideous, balding old hag, she revels in the role, playing it to full effect without overdoing it. She’s only haggish in a few scenes, though; she’s her usual drop-dead gorgeous self throughout most of the film.”

Well, I don’t know if Michelle Pfeiffer would like to play a Witch again, in spite of every one of them were great performances. Let’s remember it would be the fourth one after The Witches of Eastwick (1987) and Stardust (2007), and counting Sinbad, The Leyend Of The Seven Seas (2003) where Michelle just put her voice to Eris, the Goddess of Chaos, and anyway she was a witch.

It wouldn’t be her first villain either in her career, besides the latest two movies, Michelle already worked with director Tim Burton in Batman Returns (1992) playing one of her most successful and famous performances, Catwoman, and considerating as a villain as well, her Ingrid Magnussen in White Oleander (2002)

Without a project on the board for Michelle coming soon, I guess that any new buzz about a possible project for the actress does that our heart beats quicker. Anyway, as I’ve said above it is simply a rumor… so…

… well, now your opinion. After reading the entire post… what would you like? Take the poll and opine! ;-)

Anyway we all know if it happens, Helena Bonham Carter automatically = Maleficent.

Sources: Ain’t It Cool News, SlashFilm, IMDb, BroadwayWorld, DenDen, Suit101,

It’s the thought of a pfan, so it must be respected!… I, as a pfan, am agree with Tim in the most of his whole post, but I can understand that wholehearted pfans couldn’t.

You know, they’re right though. She’s not famous anymore. She’s not on anyone’s radar. And that’s because she’s just not working. Plain and simple.

After 2007 she basically went back into retirement. She worked for what, a month in Personal Effects? And Cheri was a quick shoot too. Meanwhile, look at other actresses’ IMDBs, Sandra Bullock, Meryl Streep, Julia Roberts, their schedules are packed. They are still stars. Michelle Pfeiffer chooses not to be a star right now, and we can’t hold it against her, it’s her choice not to work. I really wish she would though. I think she’s been too comfortable in her money for a long time now and maybe just doesn’t have a passion for it. Or it could be from disappointment.

I Could Never Be Your Woman, Personal Effects, and Cheri were all huge flops. None of them even REALLY made it into theaters.

ICNBYW would’ve done better if it were released now because Paul Rudd is actually a star now.

Personal Effects would’ve been better if they did something colorful and funny and changed the whole look and story. AshtonKutcher’s audience likes to see him in something bubbly, not in something where he’s struggling to pass as a “real” actor. They also want to see him in something where he looks attractive, that means brighter colors, not the washed out look on his face with the perpetual blue tone.

I’d like to see Michelle Pfeiffer in something with nice color too, but not OVERcolored like in ICNBYW, I don’t know what they were thinking in post production. Something normal, like “Failure to Launch” (the movie sucked but it LOOKED nice for a light film).

Cheri sucked because they ran out of money and just threw a movie together with the little they had. Plus, no one knows who Rupert Friend is. If she did this movie with Orlando Bloom, it would have been seen by actual people.

Michelle Pfeiffer can’t head a film by herself anymore. Julia Roberts won’t even dare to do it, Duplicity had Clive Owen also, and that movie still didn’t do too well. The only one who’s succeeding is Sandra Bullock. She really made a great choice with The Proposal, making a funny, accessible movie. The Blind Side was a great choice too, definitely something different than she has ever done. Better than Personal Effects, that’s for sure

At this point, I think Michelle Pfeiffer should just rely on ensembles if she wants her movie seen… It’s sad as hell but it’s true. And I know that unless the part is really something great, she’ll never go for it.

She used to be A list, but she’ll never be again if she doesn’t WORK. She needs to fill up her schedule and actually do stuff. Right now her IMDB is still completely empty. And I have a feeling also that whatever she does decide to do will be a movie we won’t even like. Like “Chasing Montana“… yuck.

Anyway I wanted to take back that last statement, it was way too harsh. I’m sure we’ll enjoy whatever project she signs on to do next, if there is a project at all. Gotta stay positive.

I love her no matter what and will always be a pfan : )

I’d like to remind Tim is the autor of the amazing and exhaustive study “Aging Gracefully“, the debate whether or not Michelle Pfeiffer has had plastic surgery.

Las amistades arriesgadillas

Chéri

**  R.U., Francia, Alemania
2009 | 192 minutos | Género: Drama | Director: Stephen Frears | Actores: Michelle Pfeiffer, Kathy Bates, Rupert Friend y Felicity Jones

FEDERICO MARÍN BELLÓN

Veinte años después de «Las amistades peligrosas», Michelle Pfeiffer, Stephen Frears y el guionista Christopher Hampton se reúnen de nuevo entre trajes de época y ambientes libertinos para rodar esta adaptación de la novela de Colette. Los admiradores de aquel título brillante, inteligente, arriesgado y, si se permite la herejía, sobrevalorado, podrían empezar a frotarse las patitas.

La mala noticia es que Frears, un maestro absoluto capaz de reinventarse una y otra vez, un tipo que confiesa aburrirse con facilidad, quizá no haya encontrado los alicientes necesarios para dar lo mejor de sí mismo con esta vuelta al cine de época. O puede que «The Queen» lo dejara exhausto. Lo único comprobado es que más de un crítico se frotó, no las patitas, sino los ojos, en los pases para las fieras de esta película.

Se agradece, por supuesto, el aliciente de dos grandes actrices: Kathy Bates, rebosante de autocomplacencia, y Michelle Pfeiffer, cuya belleza inmarcesible presenta un tono triste, como de despedida, lo que no ayuda a recuperar entusiasmos. Y si ellas son la sal, la pimienta la pone Rupert Friend (los Rupert vienen a ser la antítesis de las Hepburn), cuyo personaje es apodado «Chéri» y se permite el lujo de seducir a la «chica» aunque la cámara demuestra lo difícil que es quererlo.

Stephen Frears – Director de «Chéri»

«LAS ACTRICES SON MÁS FUERTES QUE LOS HOMBRES»

El director de «The Queen»» no es muy aficionado a explicar su trabajo. Su flema británica va más allá de lo normal. «Habría que psicoanalizarme», admite

F.M.B.

Stephen Frears está encantado con su país: «Está lleno de extraordinarias intérpretes veteranas, como Maggie Smith, Vanessa Redgrave y Helen Mirren. De la edad de Michelle Pfeiffer hay menos». Dos razones explican el fenómeno: el teatro y «que no se mueren». «Son mujeres fuertes, duras, resistentes y brillantes», añade. El cineasta no duda en preferirlas a los hombres: «Llegan con sus papeles bien aprendidos. Y ellos siempre han sido mucho más inseguros con su masculinidad y su trabajo, más ansiosos. Las mujeres son luchadoras, más fuertes que los hombres». Entre estos, salva a Michael Caine, Sean Connery y Albert Finney, Después de retratar a todas las clases sociales, ahí no encuentra diferencias: «Son todos seres humanos. La reina no es diferente de nadie».

Pero si hay un rasgo que define a Frear es la distancia con la que lo observa todo, incluida la industria del cine, que es «bastante tonta». «Me aburro fácilmente. Es un milagro que exista un trabajo que vaya conmigo». Si se le aprieta un poco, reconoce dos virtudes: «Buen gusto con la escritura y con la elección de los actores».

¿Cambiaría algo de «Las amistades peligrosas»? «Sólo algunas cosas. Y el montaje. Éramos unos niños».

Suplement: Madrid 360

El drama romántico «Chéri» supone el reencuentro entre Stephen Frears y Michelle Pfeiffer tras «Las amistades peligrosas»

En brazos de la mujer madura

J. C.

De reina a reina y tiro porque me toca. No sabe nada este Stephen Frears… O, lo que es lo mismo, si hace unos años el de Leicester volvió a primera linea de playa con su formidable «The Queen», ahora se codea con una de las escasas damas de Hollywood con sangre azul: Michelle Pfeiffer. La verdad es que muchos ansiaban un reencuentro tras «Las amistades peligrosas» y han tenido que pasar 20 años (que en el fondo no son nada) para que se produzca.

Amor cortesano

Además, con parecidos mimbres, ya que el oscarizado guionista de aquélla, Christopher Hampton, es el encargado de poner los puntos sobre las íes a la novela más famosa de Colette, «Chéri», que nana los flirteos, en el burbujeante marco del París de principios de siglo XX, entre una cortesana ya retirada del oficio y el joven que debe «aleccionar» para hacerse un hombre. Un encargo que termina en una profunda relación amorosa de seis años de duración: «Es una hermosa historia, frívola, pero también trágica y melancólica. Las cortesanas eran muy poderosas, pero vivían en una sociedad cenada que las soportaba de mala gana. Así que ésta es la película más extrema que he hecho, aunque parte de algo tan universal y cotidiano como es dos personajes buscando hacer realidad su sueño imposible», señala el director de «Alta fidelidad» y «Los timadores», títulos curiosamente emparentados con éste…

Director: Stephen Frears. Intérpretes: Michelle Pfeiffer, Rupert Friend. Nacionalidad: Reino Unido, 2009. Duración: 92 minutos. Web: www.altafilms. es
Viernes 29, estreno.

Scans and transcript by PfeifferTheFace